Given its size, this is a colossal work by Luigi Ontani. The title is inspired by a mountain, called Monte Ovolo, which Ontani could admire from the window of his house. With his usual play on words, Ontani places the mountain, shaped like an egg, on a small table that was probably a small table placed under the window that was used for decoration and where once small plants were placed, flowers in particular, to let them get sunlight in the winter